Veronica Guerin
DramaCrimeThriller
6.652/10
|USIE
|en
|98 min
Release Date: 2003-07-11
Overview - In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Production Companies
Jerry Bruckheimer FilmsTouchstone PicturesPersevere Productions Ltd.World 2000 Entertainment
User Reviews
John Chard
8/10
You'd do the same. If you saw those kids on the street, you would do the same. The assassination of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin in 1996 shook Ireland to the core, her murder saw a public swell of determination to rid the country of its drug peddlers. Joel Schumacher's film is an in depth interpretation of the woman, her beliefs, her family life, her complexities and her stoicism to r...
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